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Well sakky I beg to differ. Where's Wharton?
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<p>I believe Sakky mentioned those specific schools because he knows engineers who received admission to those MBA programs.</p>
<p>Note, he never says they are THE TOP MBA programs. He says they are TOP MBA programs. There is a difference. He's saying the schools he mentioned are up there, NOT the only ones that are up there.</p>
<p>He even mentions Wharton as a school that accepts kids with a lack of work experience. Did you really bother to spend any time reading his response?</p>
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Oh, I don't know about that. I know a number of engineers at HBS, Stanford, and MIT Sloan who have only 1-2 years of experience as an engineer. **This is especially so at MIT Sloan, which seems to be club central for engineers who want their MBA's, including a significant number of engineers with only 1-2 years of experience. I don't think anybody would dispute the notion that HBS, Stanford and Sloan are top MBA programs. **</p>
<p>I would also shy away from any words like 'need'. The fact is, there are a small handful of students at the top MBA programs who don't have ANY work experience. **There are people who get their MBA right after undergrad. There are people who get their MBA right after getting a master's degree in some other subject, or after their PhD. Some schools even have special programs that allow you to do this. For example, **Wharton allows a few of its undergrads to 'submatriculate' into the MBA program, hence getting a BS+MBA in 5 years.
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